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2 (blacks) sentenced in fatal playground beating (of White man)
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Seventeen seconds. That’s the length of the cellphone video recorded by a bystander on May 23, 2014 at a Grand Rapids elementary school playground. That’s the time it took to hurt 24-year-old Scott Simerson so severely that he would die from his injuries three months later. he attorney for the two adults defendants in the case, Robert Kelly and Donmard White, wanted to give the judge an opportunity to see who did what prior to sentencing, so the cellphone video of the beating was played in court on Tuesday for the first time. Both Kelly and White pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the case in January. “I didn’t even see my son raise a hand to protect himself,” said Edward Simerson, the victim’s father, his voice cracking as he faced White and Kelly. Simerson had taken some children to play at the Sibley Park playground on that day in May. A teenager allegedly began hassling the younger kids Simerson was supervising. Simerson stepped in and was attacked. Five punches were thrown in that 17 seconds, at least one by White (a black man), then 17. What appears to be the most violent act captured by the cellphone video was the kick to the back of the head by defendant Robert Kelly. Simerson sustained severe brain injuries. He died on Aug. 10, 2014, nearly three months after the beating. He left behind a baby daughter, fiancée and 11 siblings. - (Black-on-white)
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A 3-year-old stood frozen in fear inside a Deerfield Beach liquor store as her mother scrambled to hide a handgun after her boyfriend shot himself in the leg, authorities said. Stefanie Felicia Stern, 28, was arrested Tuesday and faces charges of child neglect without great bodily harm and tampering with evidence, jail records show. She is accused of leaving her daughter alone in a liquor store while she and her boyfriend disposed of a gun with which he had shot himself. "She left her daughter alone in the liquor store and placed her in harm's way," Hurley read from a report. "The daughter is seen frozen in fear as she witnesses these events." Stern was with her daughter and Reginald Leon Lee, 34, inside the B21 Liquor store on Dec. 22 when Lee started arguing with another customer, according to her arrest warrant. Lee chased the customer out of the store with a gun; when he walked back inside he fumbled with his pants and shot himself in the right leg, the warrant said. Lee then handed the gun to Stern and the two ran to a nearby alley to hide the gun, leaving the child in the store. 
More than four months ago, a 20-year-old mother vanished from Mobile. On Thursday, police asked for help finding the woman. 
A man is under arrest in connection with an alleged sexual assault of an elderly woman in Deerfield Beach late Sunday night, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded late Sunday to the woman's home after hearing reports of a possible sexual assault. There, they found Clyde Alvims Leandre still inside the home. After a struggle in which two officers were injured, Leandre was finally taken into custody. Both deputies were also treated at Broward North as they were injured as Leandre attempted to resist arrest.
A week after a 
FLINT, MI -- A Flint man has avoided a second trial in the killing of a security guard after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Aaron Williams, 33, pleaded no contest Wednesday, Feb. 18, in the August 2010 killing of 
Andrew Neal is ‘allegedly’ the black thug who targeted and shot a Minneapolis Cop earlier this morning when the MPD officer
The clash erupted between two groups of students, one black 
SALISBURY, N.C. — A Salisbury man who stabbed a woman he once dated to death then drove to a magistrate's office and drew a heart with her blood on the wall has been sentenced to life in prison. Tony Luther pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Friday after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. Luther told police he blacked out in a jealous rage after finding out 28-year-old 
Tulsa County prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against a man accused of raping 
BRADENTON A Bradenton man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for raping 
WAUKESHA, Wis. —A woman who works at a Waukesha County bank has been charged with armed robbery after police said she tipped off her boyfriend that one of her customers had just made a large cash withdrawal. That customer was a woman who was robbed at gunpoint at her home in Menomonee Falls. Police served a search warrant Friday at a used-car lot on Milwaukee's Appleton Avenue. They were looking for $61,000 in cash and a silver handgun. Anchor Bank teller Andria Noel, 23, is accused of tipping off the man she lives with, Kevin Lipscomb, 31. Noel is accused of telling Lipscomb that a customer had just withdrawn $61,000 in cash. The criminal complaint said the victim was in the garage of her Menomonee Falls home when a man walked up, pointed a gun at her head and said, “Show me the money” and used profanity.
A Buffalo man recently paroled from state prison for robbery was arrested early Sunday after a clerk was raped and robbed in a convenience store in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood. Michael Sanchez, 27, was charged with first-degree rape, robbery and committing a criminal sexual act. Northwest District Police officers and Sex Offense Squad detectives lodged the charges. Sanchez is accused of raping and robbing a woman who was working the at the 7-Eleven store at Hertel Avenue and Niagara Street at about 5 a.m. State records show Sanchez was paroled from state prison Dec. 12 after serving more than seven years for two felony robbery convictions. 
OCOEE, Fla. — Ocoee police said they will not re-arrest a driver who
SALT LAKE CITY The Salt Lake City Police Department has arrested a man believed to be responsible for the murder of 24-year-old 
More than nine years after an Aurora woman was found shot to death along a hiking path, the man who originally pleaded guilty to her murder in 2009 abandoned his bid Friday for a new trial. 
EDWARDSVILLE, IL – The Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office charged a 30-year-old man in connection with the murder of a Granite City woman, who was found shot to death in her car earlier this week. According to court documents, Granite City police and paramedics were called to a vacant lot at the intersection of 25th and Madison streets around 5:30 p.m. on February 18 after witnesses noticed a woman slumped over in the front seat of a 2013 Dodge Avenger. The woman, identified as 35-year-old 
37 year old Andre Campbell is sitting in jail on charges of Aggravated Sexual Battery, Incest and Rape of a teenage family member. The
LAUREL, MS - A Laurel man will be serving 8 years in prison for having sex with his daughter. Jeffrey Johnson, 38, was sentenced to 10 years with two of those years on post-release supervision for his charge of incest. Johnson appeared last week before Circuit Court Judge Dal Williamson for sentencing. According to the Jones County District Attorney's Office, Johnson plead guilty before the court to having sex with 
Police say a 
An additional sexual assault charge has been laid in an ongoing investigation of a Scarborough church pastor after a second woman came forward, police say. The pastor at the United Spiritual Baptist Church near Eglinton Ave. E. and Midland Ave. was initially accused of sexually assaulting a woman and convincing her to give him money and property during “spiritual guidance” sessions. During the sessions, held between May 2011 and May 2013, the pastor also performed exorcisms on the woman, police say. Wayne Marlon Jones, 53, of Ajax was initially charged with one count of sexual assault and three counts of fraud over $5,000. 
A rapist who locked a teenager in a flat, forced her hand into a boiling kettle, whipped her with electrical cable and forced her to perform sex acts on him has been jailed for 12 years. 
LAKELAND, Fla. - The owner of a men's clothing store in Lakeland is accused of attempting to rape a 15-year-old customer in the the store's dressing room. Michael Worlds is charged with kidnapping and sexual battery with force for the alleged incident that happened at Worlds Fashion Wear II on Wabash Avenue in Lakeland. Deputies said it happened in mid-December, but they just recently received the results of DNA evidence. According to the arrest affidavit, Worlds lured
A West Side man charged in the fatal shooting of 
DENVER – The man who left three boxes of cremated remains inside a Denver storage unit that went to auction has a criminal history dating back to the 1980s. Stephen Humphrey runs Humphrey Funeral Services in Denver, a business that used to operate out of an office on Gilpin Street until it was evicted and had to move everything into storage. Humphrey has been convicted for a number of crimes under different names according to court records. He spent time in prison for forgery in the early 90s as "Warren Wilson." He also has been convicted of making false statements and more recently identity theft.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — After three days of silence about what prompted officers to shoot and kill Darrien Hunt outside a fast food restaurant, investigators issued a brief statement saying he lunged at officers with a sword. Saratoga Springs police were called to investigate a "suspicious" man walking near businesses along Redwood Road while carrying a "Samurai-type sword." "When the officers made contact with Mr. Hunt, he brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers with the sword, at which time Mr. Hunt was shot." "There is currently no indication that race played any role in the confrontation between Hunt and the police officers." Darrien Hunt's (white) mother claimed the police killed him because he was black. 
LEXINTON, SC - What would you do if you opened a door in your home and saw the end of a shot gun? For one Midlands man, protecting his family was all that mattered. "I figure that's what any husband or father would do," 
St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputies are searching for a 37-year-old Killona man accused of throwing a dog against a wall and stomping on it, causing injuries so severe that it had to be euthanized. Authorities say the incident happened Monday (Feb. 16) at a house in Killona. The dog was taken to Riverlands Animal Hospital in LaPlace for severe head trauma, neck injury and shock. But it was put to death on Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office said. The Sheriff's Office has obtained an arrest warrant for Rashard Poche and expects to book him with cruelty to animals, said Sgt. Dwayne LaGrange, a spokesman for the agency. 
A Rochester man is accused of assaulting his one-year-old daughter. Nikey Hall, 25, was arraigned on assault charges late Thursday morning. According to court papers, on January 5, 
This could help doom scores of 
KNOXVILLE – Two former Volunteer football players have been charged with aggravated rape of a 19-year-old student at the University of Tennessee. Former Volunteer football linebacker A.J. Johnson, 23 and Michael Williams, 21 were both charged with two counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aiding and abetting rape. 
CHICAGO — Cook County prosecutors say a Chicago man has been sentenced to 85 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint more than six years ago. Twenty-five-year-old Byron Edwards was sentenced on Thursday. He’d been convicted by a jury on charges of armed robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault for the November 2008 attack. Authorities say Edwards abducted the woman at gunpoint in front of her home as she was getting into her car to go to work. Edwards forced the woman to drive to a nearby alley, where he robbed and sexually assaulted her.
CLEVELAND - An Ohio man who got out of prison last fall after serving a sentence for sexual battery has been convicted of more charges connected to sexual assaults in the 1990s. Prosecutors in Cleveland said Thursday that 54-year-old Dwayne Wilson was found guilty by a jury of nine counts of sexual assault and three counts of kidnapping for crimes he committed between 1994 and 1997. Wilson was connected to four unsolved sexual assaults - including one with a 
AURORA, Colo. - Aurora Police have released a sketch of the man who grabbed a teenage girl and sexually assaulted her on Valentine's night. The 
The lawsuit accused university officials of violating federal anti-discrimination regulations, interfering with the police investigation and showing more concern for the athletic program than investigating her report of being drugged and raped. Citing lack of evidence, the district attorney last summer dropped charges against football players SaQwan Edwards and Crusoe Gongbay and community college student Ryan Ruff. They denied wrongdoing.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The victim of a fatal Grand Rapids street shooting had been out of jail for only a day before he was killed, court and jail records show. 
Last July, 
WASHINGTON — A D.C. rabbi admits to secretly videotaping dozens of women in a ritual bath. Rabbi Barry Freundel taught at Towson University, some of his victims were students. The rabbi admits he used hidden camera to record dozens of women in a ritual bath known as a Mikveh. “The rabbi decided to plead guilty to take responsibility for his actions which he understands now to be wrong and he wants to get his life in order and move on,” Jeffrey Harris, defense attorney. Between early 2009 to October 2014, the rabbi used hidden cameras including one hidden in a clock radio, to record women in a shower area. Video clips show him setting up the cameras. Prosecutors say he recorded 
BILOXI -- The rap artist Afroman was arrested on a simple assault charge Tuesday after he reportedly punched a woman who jumped on stage during his concert at the Kress Live music venue. Biloxi Police Chief John Miller said Afroman, 40, whose real name is Joseph Edgar Foreman, was placed under citizen's arrest and later released after posting a $330 bond at police headquarters. "My understanding is (the woman) got up on stage, and he hit her," Miller said. 
A teenager who was on his way to behead a British soldier with a 12in knife when he was arrested, has been found guilty of preparing a terrorist act. 
A jury has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole for the June 2013 machete attack on two homeless brothers outside Arlington Central Library. Derrick Sutherland, 30, was convicted of aggravated malicious wounding for attacking twins 
A 61-year-old Clovis woman was arrested Thursday night after allegedly attacking her husband with a machete. Fyrne Williams is facing charges of first degree attempted murder, Clovis police said Friday. She was booked at Fresno County Jail early Friday, where she’s being held in lieu of posting $500,000 bail. Police say they found Williams near the 800 block of West Pico Avenue around 10:45 p.m. after receiving reports from neighbors that she was chasing her husband around a parking lot with a large machete. Williams threw the weapon after police arrived. Police say she told them she was “tired” of dealing with her husband of 10 years. The man, who was found with slashes on his face, was rushed to Clovis Community Medical Center. 
READING, Pa. - A man will spend up to two decades behind bars for attacking a woman with a machete. Alvin Washington pleaded guilty in Berks County Court on Tuesday to aggravated assault. He was sentenced to nine to 20 years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $14,000 in restitution. Much of that money, officials said, will help pay for the victim's medical bills. 
He menaced cops with a machete — and the city paid him for it. A Brooklyn thug who was shot by officers while waving an 18-inch blade at them and later sued the department for $3 million got a $5,000 settlement from the city — even though his own attorney said the shooting was probably justified. Ruhim Ullah, 24, had pleaded guilty to menacing a police officer after the 2010 confrontation, in which he was shot once in the leg by a cop trying to stop him from attacking officers with the machete, according to his lawyer. Despite his admission of guilt, Ullah still filed a $3 million lawsuit, accusing the officers of wrongdoing. But despite witnesses who described him as armed, the city offered a 
MONTGOMERY COUNTY — A Union man is in the Montgomery County jail facing several charges of rape and sexual battery. According to court records, Steven O’Berry, 38, had inappropriate interaction with a girl he knew. The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office approved four counts of
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — An elderly Grandville woman who said she was raped during a home invasion last summer testified against her alleged attacker for the second time on Tuesday. Shawn Jarrett is facing two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and home invasion in the alleged assault on June 19, 2014. The 85-year-old victim testified that she was unloading the dishwasher when she noticed a man standing at her back door.
A North Myrtle Beach man and woman were charged Wednesday in connection with a robbery in Brunswick County, N.C. Police said at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday Luther Stanley, 39, entered CVS Pharmacy at 9810 Ocean Highway in Calabash, N.C. and threatened two people with a knife and demanded the drug Oxycontin. Stanley then ran out of the store and got into the passenger side of a silver Ford driven by Jennifer Hailey Moreland, 21, who also had 
MINNEAPOLIS — A woman convicted of luring two men into a brutal knife assault in Fridley last summer was sentenced to almost 15 years in prison. Tiffani Marie Ivy pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting first-degree assault. Ivy and another woman, Leanne Todd, were accused of tricking 
HOUSTON - A Houston teacher accused of sexually assaulting a young girl made a court appearance Thursday morning. Police arrested Milton Cole at the Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology Wednesday. He has worked as a special education teacher at the school for the last 2 1/2 years. School officials said the victim is not a student. Prosecutors said both incidents happened at a Missouri City apartment complex. The first alleged incident happened in 2009 when
The suspect is described as a black male, 25 years-of-age, with long braids and a beard with a mustache. He was wearing a gray Nike hooded sweatshirt and dark-colored pants.
Pepsi and Quaker Oats have just escaped a potentially sticky legal situation. The two companies have been granted a dismissal in a lawsuit brought against them by two men claiming to be the great-grandsons of Anna Short Harrington, who portrayed syrup and pancake figurehead Aunt Jemima. Dannez W. Hunter and Larnell Evans, Jr. filed suit against PepsiCo, the Quaker Oats Company and others, claiming that the defendants had failed to pay royalties to Harrington’s estate and stole Harrington’s pancake formula in an act of “industrial espionage.”But an order handed down by U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang found that the statute of limitations for Hunter and Evans’ claims had long ago expired.
PHILADELPHIA – A key witness in the murder trial of the “Black Madam” has gone south on the prosecution, and she won’t testify at trial, which is scheduled to start this morning. But the judge has ruled the prosecution can present her testimony from an earlier hearing. The prosecution says Theresa Gyamfi is a necessary witness — she testified at an earlier hearing that she traveled with her friend, victim 
A Myrtle Beach man was charged with attempted murder in connection with a woman being attacked with a machete on Christmas Day. 
Officer John (Lenny) Montanez faces up to 17 years in prison for helping an identity thief with scams. Montanez was an NYPD cop for seven years. 
INDIANAPOLIS – An Indianapolis man avoided a murder charge after pleading guilty to aggravated battery in the fatal shooting of a man in a south side Indianapolis driveway. The two men were arguing over a dog, police said. Albert Rogers, 26, was sentenced to 11 years, including 10 years in community corrections and one year of probation. He will not spend time in prison. Rogers shot and killed 
A 39-year-old Detroit man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly stabbed two men at a bus stop when they told him they weren’t Muslim. Terrence Lavaron Thomas was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of assault with intent to murder, one count of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and possession of a controlled substance. Police have contacted the FBI to investigate whether a hate crime was committed after Mr. Thomas, who later told police he was Muslim, allegedly stabbed two men at a Southfield, Michigan, bus stop. “The victims in this case said that the suspect asked them if they were Muslim,” said Southfield Police Chief Eric Hawkins. “They responded that they were not, and then there was some back-and-forth between the victims and the suspect.” Mr. Thomas then started stabbing one of them, Chief Hawkins said. 
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Harrisburg man will spend life in prison for the shotgun killing of his ex-girlfriend two years ago. Lagenza Junious, 39, pleaded guilty to the first degree murder of 
A 30-year-old Eastpointe man was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and their 13-month-old daughter. Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith charged Curtis Hampton, 30, with two counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - As the 
ELIZABETH -- A Union County jury has returned guilty verdicts against two Plainfield men who sexually assaulted 
On January 19th, 2015, Cytherea and her family was victims of a home invasion by five armed men. The armed held Cytherea's family at gun point, stole a number of valuable items and sexually assualted Cytherea before police arrived. Weeks later, police was able to apprend the suspects to find three of the five men and found to be the age of 18, 17 and 16. "Charges against the three defendants include five counts of robbery, four counts of kidnapping, three counts of conspiracy to commit sexual assault and one count of sexual assault. All three were charged as adults." 
Jesse L. Matthew Jr was arrested later that month in Texas and was charged with abduction with intent to defile, indicating that police believed Matthew planned to sexually assault 
ANCHORAGE - A man convicted of fatally slashing a woman’s neck during a 2012 attempted robbery in Midtown Anchorage was sentenced to more than four decades in prison Friday morning. Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton handed down a 65-year term with 20 years suspended for 44-year-old Vernell Mclemore, convicted of second-degree murder in the death of 
